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T2L1 European Colonization

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where is this archeological park located?

a)

Hispaniola

b)

Florida

c)

Spain

d)

New Spain

2.

Who searched for the Fountain of Youth?

a)

Bartolome de Las Casas

b)

Hernando de Soto

c)

Ponce de Leon

d)

Jayden Martinez

3.

Who searched for the fabled "Seven Cities of Gold"?

a)

Francisco Coronado 

b)

Ponce de Leon

c)

Jesus

d)

Christopher Columbus

4.

Who wanted to protect Florida's waterways?

a)

Ponce de Leon

b)

Mily

c)

Hernando de Soto

d)

none of these

5.

Spanish expeditions into the borderlands were successful and yielded great treasure.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

What were the main reasons for Spanish Colonization?

a)

Groves, Gold, Glory

b)

God, Gold, Grub

c)

God, Gold, Government

d)

God, Gold, Glory

7.

What was in the middle of a Pueblo?

a)

Church

b)

Plaza

c)

McDonald's

d)

I'm so lost

8.

How did Bartolome de Las Casa feel about the treatment of the Indigenous people?

a)

He had compassion and wanted it to stop

b)

He was in favor of their slavery

c)

He was indifferent

d)

I'm not sure

9.

What are the four social classes of New Spain, in order from highest to lowest.

a)

Indigenous

Mestizos

Creoles

Peninsulares

b)

Mestizos

Creoles

Indigenous

Peninsulares

c)

I

am

so

lost

d)

Peninsulares

Creoles

Mestizos

Indigenous

10.

What were persidios?

(a)  

11.

These were land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans

a)

Yep

b)

conquistador

c)

empanadas

d)

encomiendas

12.

A person could be a Peninsular based on what?

a)

Their ancestors

b)

Their place of birth

c)

How well they could farm

d)

A pen what?

13.

What was the Middle Passage?

a)

It was the railroad

b)

It was Spanish Colonization

c)

It was the Trans-Atlantic Slave Company

d)

The passage where you pass in the middle